• Title
  Photographs received from London during the first experimental transmission over the Beam Wireless Picturegram Service, 1934
• Creator
  Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia)
• Call number
  V*/PHOT/1
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  12 September - 17 October 1934
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442593
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 3 silver gelatin photoprints, cardboard mounted - 33 x 66 cm. incl. mount
  
• Scope and Content
  a. This photograph of the assassination of King Alexander in Marseilles was the first picture received by the Beam Wireless Picturegram Service from England and published in the Australian afternoon newspapers on 17th October 1934
  
  b. Photograph of E.T.Fisk Esq. Chairman of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. This picutre was received from London during the first experimental transmission over the Beam Wireless Picturegram Service of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd at Melbourne on 12th September 1934
  
  c. This picture of Mr C.J.Melrose beside his plane at Mildenhall Aerodrome preparing his kit for the start of the Centenary Air Race, was the first received by the Beam Wireless Picturegram Service from England and published in Australian morning newspapers on 17th October 1934
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  These were the first pictures transmitted digitally from England to Australia by short wave radio. The transmissions took place on 17 October 1934 using the Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Limited radio-picturegram service.
  Individual photos titled from original mount
  Digital order no:Album ID : 824157
• Name
  Melrose, C. J.
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aeroplanes
  aviators
  chief executive officers
  homicides
  portraits
  royal family (Great Britain)
  radio transmission
  
• Place
  London (England)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Eye 4 photography - State Library of New South Wales (8 January - 29 May, 2005). Applies to: Item c
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1049136

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